Mucilage or blacking bottle



Patented Sept. 27,.1a9sj N0. 6IL485.

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(Application filed Dec. 6, 1897.)

(No Model.)

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ALFRED I-IOSFELD, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

MUCIILAQGIEIOR BLACKING BOTTLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 611,485, dated September 2'7, 1898.

Application filed December 6, 1897. fierial No. 660,829. (No model.)

T0 at whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALFRED HOSFELD, a citizen of the United States, residingin the city of Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Mucilage or Blacking Bottles, of which the following is a specification.

My invention hasrelation to a bottle with a detachable holder for supporting a sponge or like absorbent and distributing means for gumming or applying a blacking fluid to an article; and in such connection it relates to the particular construction of such a bottle and arrangement of the parts or members of the same for the said purposes.

The principal objects of my invention are, first, to provide a bottle with a holder for a sponge extending from the same and in Which by a self-feeding onto the sponge or the like mucilage, blacking, or shoe-dressing is conveyed from the bottle through the holder onto the exterior surface of the sponge and absorbed thereby, so as to be readily distributed from the sponge or the like onto the article to be gummed, blackened, or dressed, the main body and lower portion of the sponge or like distributing device of the holder being supported in the holder free from the influence of the fluid or gummy substance and against Waste or loss thereof or the hardening of the sponge or the like; second, to provide a bottle with a detachable holder for a sponge or like article which is self -feeding to the outer exposed surface of the same to insure a good application from the absorbent body of the fluid fed thereto; third, to provide a cylindrical or polysided bottle with a detachable holder having an inner chamber within which is supported and held therefrom a sponge or like absorbent article and in which by the inverting of the bottle there is fed from the contents of the bottle ontothe outer exposed surface of the sponge or the like the fluid contents of the bottle in measured quantity for distributing from the same onto an article to be gummed, blackened, or dressed, and, fourth, to provide a bottle with a removable holder and cap, the former adapted to support in position a sponge or the like and the holder provided with openings whereby the fluid or gummy substance of the bottle,

by inverting the same, may be fed through the said openings onto the exposed exterior surface of the sponge or the like and not into that portion of the sponge or the like held with the chamber or pocket provided to receive and support the same in position from the holder.

My invention, stated in general terms, consists of a bottle provided with a mucilage or otherholder when constructed and arranged in substantiallythe manner hereinafter described and claimed.

The nature and scope or characteristic features of my invention will be more fully unview of a slightly-modified form of the same applied to a cylindrical form of bottle, and

bothembodying features of my invention. Fig. 3is a top or plan view of the form of sponge-holder of Fig. 1 with the sponge re moved; and Fig. 4 is a similar view of the form of holder of Fig. 2 with the sponge removed.

Referring to the drawings, A represents the bottle of Figs. 1 and 2, respectively, polysided and cylindrical in form and having preferably the upper exterior surface or neck of the bottle threaded at a, as shown in Fig. 2, so as to readily receive and retain the mucilageholder embodying the main features of my present invention, to be hereinafter fully explained.

The holder B of Figs. 1 and 3 consists of a metal tube 19, having preferably an enlargement or at the base in Fig. 1, and in Fig. 2 about the middle of the same, and the intorior of the holder threaded at a so as to easily fit the neck or upper portion a, of the bottle A. a is an annular gutter provided between the exterior surface of the tube 1) and the inner tapering chamber 0, having an inner pocket or receptacle d, extending downward below the base of the gutter a e and e are crescent-shaped openings arranged between the wall of the chamber a and inner pocket or receptacle d. These openings extend through to the interior of the tube 19, detachably applied to the neck or upper portion of the bot tle A, as illustrated in Fig. 1, so that by inverting the bottle the contents in regulated quantity may flow out through the said openings e and e, separated from each other by Vertical partitions e and 6 Around the upper edge of the wall of the pocket or receptacle d and extending inwardly or concentrically is a series of spurs, prongs, 0r barbs 1 for a purpose to be presently fully explained. f is a sponge or like absorbent body adapted to be fitted and held securely in the said pocket or receptacle d by means of the said spurs, prongs, or barbs d and with the main portion of the sponge or the like exposed beyond the top wall of the said pocket yet maintained in the pocket or receptacle d free from contact of the fluid contents of the bottle therewith, except the exterior surface located beyond the top of the receptacle or pocket d, which fluid or gummy substance by inverting the bottle is conveyed through the crescentshaped openings 6 and e to the exposed exterior surface of the sponge f only, whereby the working surface of the same is better supplied with the distributing fluid or substance with less waste and opportunity for the sponge to become hard by standing when the appliance is not in use, especially if the bottle contains a preparation designed for gumining an article or for blackening or applying a dressing to shoes or leather.

In Figs. 2 and 4 the holder is the same as that hitherto described with reference to Figs. 1 and 3, with the exception that the same is provided with two or more circular openings e and e instead of crescent-shaped openings, and with the further exceptions that the holder as to its shape, as well as the bottle, are respectively circular and cylindrical in form, and the pocket or receptacle (1 in this instance is so located as to extend above and below the annular gutter a arranged between the wall of said sponge-retaining pocket cl sponge or the like when not in use and there- V by to protect the same by preventing the undue drying out or hardening of the sponge.

Having thus described the nature and objects of my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a mucilage or blacking bottle, a cap or top removably fitted to the neck of the bottle, an inner pocket or receptacle for a sponge or the like secured in said pocket or receptacle by spurs or prongs formed on said pocket and-said pocket or receptacle separated from thebody of said cap or top by openings and partitions, substantially as and for the purposes described.

2. In a mucilage or blacking bottle, a cap or top removably secured to the neck of said bottle, an inner pocket or receptacle with concentrically-arranged prongs or spurs,a sponge or the like mounted in said pocket or receptacle and held by said prongs or spurs therein and said pocket or receptacle separated from the wall of said cap or top by crescentshaped openings and partitions, substantially as and for the purposes described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my signature in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ALFRED HOSFELD.

Witnesses:

O'rro A. SEIDEL, OSCAR SOHIRMER. 

